POKHARA, Nepal — Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight — and die — with legendary valor for another man's country ...

Members of the Afghan army's special-operations forces are among the many Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover. Those forces are highly trained and well regarded, and the UK is considering ...

January 13, 2009: Unable to recruit enough Britons for their infantry units, Britain is experimenting with attaching a company of Gurkha infantry to British infantry regiments (actually battalions), ...

More than 100 British travellers stranded in isolated parts of Nepal when the coronavirus outbreak struck have been rescued by the Gurkhas. Soldiers from the British Gurkhas Nepal network, based in ...

FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - Retired Captain Birbahadur Thapa served in the British army for 28 years as part of the Brigade of Gurkhas, the fighting force recruited in Nepal whose kukri-wielding ...

Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight - and die - with legendary valor for another man's country far away. In an ...

The former Afghan government’s elite commandos may be joining the British Army. Some British politicians are calling for the Army to form a new regiment from the commandos, hundreds of whom are the UK ...

"Better to die than be a coward" is the motto of the world-famous Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who are an integral part of the British Army. They still carry into battle their traditional weapon - an ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition Nepali Gurkha military veterans in Britain have ended their 13-day hunger strike outside No. 10 Downing Street after the British ...